Playing Her Secret Crush by Casey Griffin

Author:Casey Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Crush; YA; YA romance; Teen; Teen romance, friends to lovers, friendship, humor, comedy, romantic comedy
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Crush)
Published: 2018-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Alex’s therapist regarded him from her wingback chair. She folded her hands over her notebook, as though she had all the time in the world. Actually, they only had fifteen minutes left.

“So what else is new since we last met?” Dr. Swift finally asked.

“Not much,” Alex said, because he’d told her pretty much everything.

Alex never bothered to hold back. He found the sessions went much faster if he was an open book. There were a lot less lip pursings, suspicious stares, and note scribblings when she didn’t think he was trying to hide something. So he was completely honest about how happy he was, how perfectly his life was going—he just left out the not-so-perfect parts.

But there was one thing he wasn’t ready to discuss, one thing he didn’t even know how to begin working through. He wanted to be with Katie, but so had his brother. It seemed unfair that Alex got to be there and he didn’t, that he could hold her, kiss her, and Jason couldn’t.

It wasn’t like he’d planned the kiss. He’d pushed away his feelings for Katie for so long, but in that moment, behind those curtains, something had come over him. And she’d kissed him back!

After they’d left the mall the day before, the three of them had driven home in silence. He and Katie hadn’t talked about it since. He wondered if she felt as much guilt as he did. When they were kissing, had she been thinking of Jason?

He didn’t know what to think of it himself, far less how to explain it, so instead, he said, “But there is…this girl.”

“That’s great,” Dr. Swift said. “Tell me about her.”

“She’s amazing,” he said. “She’s everything I’ve ever wanted,” which was the perfect truth, since every other girl had been like a supplement, a distraction for the one he’d really wanted all along, that he shouldn’t want at all.

“How does Katie feel about this new girl?” Dr. Swift leaned forward in her chair, like the subject of Katie was of the most interest to her.

Alex flinched at the name, but the question didn’t surprise him. Dr. Swift knew how close they were. Katie had even attended sessions with him as a way to “see a different side of ‘Alex.’” His therapist had even used air quotes, like “If you really are who you say you are.”

Alex hesitated. “I’m not sure what she thinks yet.”

“Do you know this new girl well?” she asked. “Well enough to know she’s what you really want?”

“Yes. I…I just know,” he said lamely. It was a little more complicated than that.

Dr. Swift nodded and wrote something down in her notebook. He listened to the scratch of her pen on paper and imagined what she was writing. Alex Masse is completely and irrevocably bonkers.

She sighed and took off her glasses—she meant real doctor business now—and gave him a suspicious look. Or so it seemed to him. “Don’t you think you’ve more than fulfilled your promise to your brother?” she asked.

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